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They say plan it. I say do it.

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Tom Peters
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: November 7
Businessperson
Economist
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Business is about people. It's about passion. It's about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.
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I believe in the age of the Internet, Facebook and Twitter, that relationships are everything.
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You can't live life without an eraser.
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Test fast, fail fast, adjust fast.
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Creating in all employees the awareness that their best efforts are essential and that they will share in the rewards of the company's success.
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Companies have got to learn to eat change for breakfast.
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Business, life itself, is damned hard work if you wanna be good at it. Actually, that's precisely wrong. Business ceases to be work when you're chasing a dream that has engorged you. (Work should be more fun than fun - Noel Coward.) And if the passion isn't there. then biotech and plumbing will be equal drags.
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The best kept secret in the global economy today is this: When your service is AWESOME you get so stinking rich you have to buy new bags to carry all the money home.
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The difference between great and average is, mostly, having the imagination and zeal to re-create yourself daily.
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The populations of most cities around the world continue to grow. The reasonspeople congregate in cities are various and complex, and the dawn of the digital age has not put much of adamper on the human urge to congregate.
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Steve Jobs is perhaps the most competitive human being I have ever met in my life, and yet I would argue one of the most artistic human beings I have ever met in my life. You can trash the movies all you want, but they do have an artistic component. And yet brutal competition knows no peers when it comes to Hollywood.
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There is no such thing as an insignificant improvement.
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Quality involves living the message of the possibility of perfection and infinite improvement, living it day in and day out, decade by decade.
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The trouble with much of the advice business gets today about the need to be more vigorously creative is that its advocates often fail to distinguish between creativity and innovation. Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things... The shortage is of innovators.
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In the great city of San Francisco, where I used to live, at 2 in the morning every other Victorian house has somebody who is writing the great American novel. And the city is not loaded with James Joyces or Virginia Woolfs. But entrepreneurship is about distorted views of reality.
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If the other guy is getting better, then you'd better be getting better faster than the other guy is getting better... or you're getting worse.
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Ready, fire, aim. Do it! Make it happen! Action counts. No one ever sat their way to success.
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Develop a respect and reverence for the principle of variation: the idea that the message ain't in the mean, the mode or the median - it's in the differences that occur throughout a population.
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If no one is pissed-off with you then you are dead but just haven't figured it out yet.
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Winston Churchill said that appetite was the most important thing about education. Leadership guru Warren Bennis says he wants to be remembered as 'curious to the end.' David Ogilvy contends that the greatest ad copywriters are marked by an insatiable curiosity 'about every subject under the sun.'
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